In Mad Max: Fury Road, one character was clearly having extra enjoyable than the remaining: Coma, the Doof Warrior. You know, the man with the flaming guitar and large wall of audio system offering growling musical accompaniment to the carnage unfolding round him. Double Kick Heroes takes that idea and runs with it; what if the facility of steel itself was the one factor protecting you alive on the irradiated roads of the apocalypse?
Originally debuting in the 34th Ludum Dare dev-jam, that specific one limiting designs to the ideas of ‘Two Button controls’ and ‘Growing’, the rhythm shooter Double Kick Heroes hits Early Access this April, now freed from its previous restrictions.
While the unique Ludum Dare iteration (launched means again in December of 2015) had you outrunning a rising swarm of zombies, the complete sport goes to be accompanying its 30-track playlist with all method of apocalyptic issues to take care of, together with mutant troopers, shark-men, dinosaurs with means too many mouths and even some Mad Max-style street gangs, all of that are handled by means of fundamental (but demanding) three-instrument rhythm gameplay not solely not like Beatmania.
The previous prototype model targeted solely on the drums, with you utilizing each the left and proper arrow keys to thrash out excessive tempo percussion, a machinegun bullet accompanying every word hit. The upcoming industrial model appears so as to add grenades and sniper fireplace to the combo accompanying different devices, and it appears such as you’ll need to do some handbook concentrating on and even some maneuvering on the street all of the whereas.
For all its heavy steel extra, Double Kick Heroes has been developed at a measured tempo, and can be achieved solely when the workforce behind it – the excellently named Headbang Club – are happy. As such, its preliminary debut on April 11th can be by way of Steam Early Access, and can characteristic 18 tracks, a bit beneath two thirds of the ultimate sport. The full sport additionally guarantees a stage editor, permitting you so as to add your individual music and compose note-charts to match. Owing to the authorized dangers concerned, I really feel this may increasingly exclude it from the Steam Workshop, nevertheless it’s nice they going that far.
You can wishlist Double Kick Heroes on Steam here, or strive the previous prototype model of the sport here.
